FARMERS AND THE USE OF FERTILISERS.
A farmer should first take care that all the farmyard manure produced on his farm should be properly utilised, and should see that this valuable source of fertility is not wasted through careless treatment during storage. If the quality of the manure has been enriched by cake-feeding, so much the bettor for the crons.
When he lias estimated what supplies of fertilising material he has thus secured, he is in a good position to calculate how much commercial fertiliser is required to supplement the farmyard manure, and he may bear in mind that a liberal supply of suitable nourishment for his crops is just as good policy'“'as a generous supply of food to his animals. Then, after consideration of the character of his soil and the special requirements of the crops ho intends to grow, he can decide the quantities and kinds of fertiliser he should buy, and which sort is the most economical in view of the market prices of different kinds. The farmer who carefully studies all sides of the matter and uses commercial fertilisers with discrimination, is the man who gets a profit out of them, and the farmer who just buys a fertiliser because it is pressed upon him by an enterprising seller is the man who afterwards says lie docs not see any good in chemical manures.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3123, 28 January 1914, Page 15
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